Styles
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Features
Single-story forms (stylistic set 1): Replaces default forms of a and g with single-story schoolbook versions.
Barred A (stylistic set 2): Replaces default form of capital A with an alternate version with a bar on top.
Looped Q (stylistic set 3): Replaces default form of capital Q with an alternate version with a short, looped tail.
Short f (stylistic set 17): Replaces all instances of lowercase f with a short, nonkerning form. By default, this short f is substituted contextually only when necessary to avoid collisions.
Lowercase figures: Substitutes figures, math, and currency symbols with three-quarter height forms designed for text settings. Accessed as old-style figures.
Superiors: Replaces digits and daggers with properly scaled and superscripted variants for footnotes and citations.
Scientific inferiors: Replaces digits with properly scaled and positioned scientific inferiors.
Fractions: Replaces arbitrary fraction sequences with properly sized and positioned numerators and denominators.
Slashed zero: Replaces the figure zero with a slashed variant.
Standard ligatures/contextual alternates: Substitute various versions of the letter f to avoid large gaps or collisions.
Discretionary ligatures: Replaces the www sequence with a single ligature.
Case-sensitive forms: When all-caps styling is applied, punctuation such as parentheses, brackets, braces, dashes, guillemets, and opening question and exclamation marks are replaced with shifted forms.
Nominal dashes (stylistic set 18): Replaces default forms of em and en dashes with “true”, full-measure nominal forms without sidebearings.
Primes (stylistic set 19): Replaces single and double quotes with properly canted marks for minutes and seconds or feet and inches.
Licensing info
Licenses for Trilby are now available for purchase from The Font Bureau. Of course, feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.
Additional links
- Trilby, available for licensing from The Font Bureau
- Font Bureau News: Trilby, ATypI, Interlínea, How We Read, & GD, Referenced
- I Love Typography: My Favorite Fonts of 2009
- The Experts Agree: Fonts of 2009
- Who Shot the Serif?, an excerpt from Allan Haley’s article in HOW Magazine